Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 06:56:51 -0700 From: Patrick Powell <papowell@astart.com> To: Denny Lin <dennylin93@hs.ntnu.edu.tw> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox 4 - Beta Message-ID: <4D8607A3.5060702@astart.com> In-Reply-To: <20110319233434.GK129@mail.hs.ntnu.edu.tw> References: <rhk948-1bv1.ln1@news.hansenet.de> <4D723F43.4040506@FreeBSD.org> <4lhc48-s332.ln1@news.hansenet.de> <4D73BD6A.7000404@swa.org.ru> <8v9d48-0qi1.ln1@news.hansenet.de> <AANLkTi=mdLSHo_PRdBsKAdzdLBhUpMSoRhmnc_XtmxiO@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTi=WmhP_=4p_i2Fu6qgKMZh3h3S-4%2BNgPbgjRd=0@mail.gmail.com> <20110319080231.684d0fd9@ernst.jennejohn.org> <4D84E7A4.6060409@astart.com> <20110319233434.GK129@mail.hs.ntnu.edu.tw>
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On 03/19/11 16:34, Denny Lin wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:28:04AM -0700, Patrick Powell wrote: >> On 03/19/11 00:02, Gary Jennejohn wrote: >>> On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:07:28 -0600 >>> "Edwin L. Culp W."<edwinlculp@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I'm assuming that we are close to having firefox4 in the tree as >>>> firefox. It can't be too soon. I have not found any drawbacks to it >>>> in the couple weeks of testing. >>>> >>> Unfortunately, it still goes crazy like the older versions and eats 100% >>> of the CPU for no apparent reason. >>> >>> Otherwise it's no worse than 3.x was. >>> >> Ummm... does it support Java? There were some issues with newer versions >> of firefox requiring newer versions of the JDK which have not been >> ported/updated. > Use java/openjdk6: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html#MOZ-JAVA-PLUGIN > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=21010 > For various reasons, unless there are no other options, I would prefer to use Solaris JDK as then I would have one consistent Java version on a slew (i.e. - more than I want to think about) systems that I would have to update, test, etc.etc.etc. Patrick ("One version to rule them, One set of bugs to confuse them, and in the Virtual Machine bind them") Powell -- Patrick Powell Astart Technologies papowell@astart.com 1530 Jamacha Road, Suite X, Network and System San Diego, CA 92019 Consulting 858-874-6543 Web Site: www.astart.com
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